Rec Room’s Punk New Season
“What the heck is a Rec Room?” was the question I set out to answer almost a year ago when I interviewed the performance art space co-owners and founders, Matt Hune and Stephanie Wittels Wachs
Over the Borderline: Exhibitions at Artpace Address Contemporary Divisions
It could be argued that art is limitless. But is it borderless? This summer, Artpace embraces this question with two solo exhibitions of work by Sabine Senft and Doerte Weber, artists who are addressing global issues of migration and geopolitical borders.
Lynn Lane’s Transitory Sound and Movement Collective is Making Shifts in Houston
I think of Houston as a creative Bento box, in the way that New York is a melting pot. Art people go to galleries and museums, music people go to the opera and symphony, and so on.
Collective Art: The Propeller Group at Blaffer Art Museum
There’s something deceptive about the exhibition on view at the University of Houston’s Blaffer Art Museum.
Simulate the Revolution: Digital Projections Enhance MFAH’s Mexican Modernism Survey
Mexican modern art is having a moment in Texas museums.
Parallel Lines: Uniting Jim Crow-Era Works by Black, White Artists at Houston Public Library
Houston audiences will get a rare glimpse into the Bayou City’s pre-boom, Jim Crow-era art scene when the exhibition Planned, Organized and Established: Houston Artist Cooperatives presents paintings and ephemera from two 1930s collectives—one white, one black.
Roni Horn: Nasher Sculpture Center
For the first time at Dallas’ iconic Nasher Sculpture Center, curators have allowed for a physical alteration of the building: removing two rows of the site-specific oculi in the ceiling of the Renzo Piano structure.
Unpeopled Landscapes: Esteban Delgado, Tom Turner, and Victor Pérez-Rul at Southwest School of Art
Depending on one’s frame of mind, the new exhibitions on view through July 16 at San Antonio’s Southwest School of Art—created by three very different artists in three divergent mediums—offer either hopeful or apocalyptic visions of landscapes.
Full Season Ahead for Houston’s Horse Head Theatre
Houston’s Horse Head Theatre company has a reputation for staging intriguing and occasional avant-garde contemporary plays in nontraditional and even bizarre venues, from the back porch of a bar to a geodesic event dome on the banks of Buffalo Bayou.
Disco Balls in the Desert and other Marfa Adventures
When I saw that this year's Marfa Sounding focused on the great California-based legend and dance maker Anna Halprin, I knew that I had to make trek to Marfa for Memorial Day weekend.
Texas New Music Ensemble Focuses on Lone Star Composers
Texas composers have a champion in Chad Robinson, founder and artistic director of Texas New Music Ensemble (TNME). Concluding its 4th season, TNME will highlight its unique mission and growing accomplishments with its annual celebratory summer concert on Aug. 12th at MATCH.
Defining Home: Da Camera’s 30th Season
Da Camera has flourished because of the entrepreneurial spirit and open-mindedness of its hometown of Houston, as general director Sarah Rothenberg will readily tell you.